Harman Story Timeline

CQ's blockbuster story, about a wiretap that picked up Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) discussing the AIPAC spying case with a "suspected Israeli agent", picks up on a sequence of complex events from several years ago, and involves several moving pieces.

So we thought it would be worthwhile to put together a timeline of events laying out the major reported developments in this sprawling story.

Without further ado:

* November 2004: The New York Times, after intense lobbying from the Bush administration, decides to hold a planned report on the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program.

* A few months later: Harman, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence committee, tells Eric Lichtblau, one of the Times reporters on the as-yet-unpublished wiretap story: "The Times did the right thing by not publishing that story ... This is a valuable program, and it would be compromised."